TOMATO, OR LOVE-APPLE 



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until the new crop is ready. The English variety named Nisbetfs 

 Victoria should be referred to the Pear-shaped section, although it 

 is a rather distinct form 

 of it. This Tomato is 

 more of a long egg shape, 

 and broader at the lower 

 end than a true pear 

 shape. The fruit arc 

 borne in bunches of from 

 four to eight, and the 

 plant, which is tall, stout, 

 and half-late, is remark- 

 able for the luxuriance of 

 its foliage. 



Cherry Tomato.— 

 Plant comparatively 

 hardy, very productive, 

 and vigorous; stem about 

 4 ft. high, thick and 

 stout, very branching, and 

 bearing an abundance of 

 very green, flat leaves. 

 The flowers commence to 

 appear a week later than 

 those of the Large Early 

 Red Tomato. Fruit spherical or slightly flattened, scarlet, about 

 I in. in diameter, and growing in bunches of from eight to twelve. 

 A well-grown plant may be allowed to carry more than twenty 

 bunches, especially if the fruit are gathered as they ripen. This 

 is a mid-season variety, and is very productive, notwithstanding 



the small size of the fruit. 

 The Red Currant 

 M/ Tomato {Solamnn racemi- 

 foniin, Dun.) is sometimes 

 ^ grown for table use, but 

 more frequently as an 

 ornamental plant. Fruit 

 rounded, small, and scarlet, 

 produced in long clusters 

 of twelve, fifteen, or even 

 more, containing an acid 

 pulp. 



Amongst the numerous 

 varieties of Tomatoes 

 following deserve to be 



King Humbert Tomato. 



Pear-shaped, or Fig, Tomato (branch, 

 § natural size). 



which we have 

 mentioned : — 



not described, the 



